Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland

Jerusalem was a corporate, denominated, organized
body of professed worshippers. She had just
completed seventy years of disintegration and exile
as punishment for centuries of rebellion and
apostasy. Now the prophet, has been called to
predict her reconstitution and reinstatement as the
denominated people who will again represent
Jehovah Co the nations of earth. “The spirit of
grace and supplications” is not to be poured out on
scattered individual descendants of Abraham
invisibly connected by mutual faith, but on the
inhabitants of the “city,” a visible body of God’s
denominated people on earth. in the setting of
Zechariah’s prophecy, it is implied that no
descendant of Abraham choosing to dwell outside
“Jerusalem” will share in the outpouring of the
“spirit of grace and supplications.” And we do
know that those Jews were “lost” to history who
chose to remain in the nations where they were
scattered, refusing to move back to the ancestral
nation in Palestine.
Who are “the house of David”? Obviously not
Christ Himself, for “the house of David” share with
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